Question
A writer from this country said that he’s sure another author’s poetry “will endure” in an essay titled “Eight Seconds with [an author from this country].” That author from this country wrote “The Individual’s Soliloquy,” and often declared “I take back everything I’ve said.” The speaker of a poem by an author from this country describes “the tenderness, light as water and as flour. / And the word scarcely begun on the lips.” An author from this country wrote “It so happens I am sick of being a man” in “Walking Around.” Nicanor Parra is from this country, as is an author who wrote in a poem that “In you everything sank!” and declared “It is the hour of departure.” For 10 points, name this home country of the author of “The Song of Despair,” Pablo Neruda. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Richard Niu | Cornell C | Columbia B | 41 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Yale A | 57 | -5 |
Forrest Weintraub | Columbia A | Rutgers A | 86 | 10 |
Karsten Rynearson | Yale A | NYU A | 91 | 10 |
Ethan Furman | Haverford | Rowan A | 111 | 10 |